University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation TrustThe Department of Healthcare for Older People provides a comprehensive service for older patients both in hospital and in community settings and leads on the care of older people at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital. We are committed and passionate about older patients living with frailty.
At Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, our specialty has grown substantially in recent years due to the development of one of the largest fractured neck of femur services in Europe, a comprehensive Older Person Assessment and Liaison (OPAL) service providing vital front door care, and the Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (FSDEC) service. The specialty wishes to recruit additional dynamic Consultant Geriatricians at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital to support our exciting and forward-thinking team. We welcome and can accommodate any subspecialty interest, though we particularly wish to recruit consultants with an interest in peri-operative geriatrics (Orthogeriatric and surgical liaison), movement disorders, and acute geriatrics.
Heartlands Hospital is committed to supporting staff wellbeing, so although the posts are 10 programmed activities, working less than full time can be accommodated.
Main Duties of the JobThe opportunity to join a well-established team of front door/interface geriatricians to improve the patient's journey in hospital. The post holder will have a chance to take part in service development to establish an acute admissions assessment unit for frail older adults as well as take part in our OPAL service (older people assessment and liaison service), an MDT team that provides Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) in the Emergency Department and the medical assessment unit.
The opportunity to develop a community service within reach to Intermediate Care centres and developing a rapid access GP clinic to provide early review of community-based patients and avoid hospital admissions where possible.
Provision of a liaison Orthogeriatric service, there is a centralised fractured neck of femur service, which is one of the largest in Europe for all patients across the trust based at the BHH site, giving an excellent opportunity to develop orthogeriatric services at the site. MDT falls clinics and osteoporosis clinics also form part of orthogeriatric services, and there is an opportunity to develop tilt table testing and syncope clinics if the candidate has the expertise.
Frailty SDEC provides same day emergency care service for patients over 70, delivering specialist input and facilitating early discharge.
We have consultant-led MDT Fall, MDT Parkinson's, Osteoporosis, and general geriatrics clinics.
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Job ResponsibilitiesCLINICAL CARE
Care of inpatientsAdministrative duties related to patient careContribution to undergraduate, post-graduate, and continuing medical education activity, including AHPs as part of the multidisciplinary team.Regular participation in departmental and directorate meetings.Consultants are encouraged and supported with research projects.Provision of cover for Consultant colleagues during periods of leave in accordance with arrangements agreed within Trust policy.To help the department and Trust in emergencies.Appropriate evening and weekend on-call commitments for acute medicine and specialty.Person SpecificationQualificationsMRCP or equivalent. Entered on the GMC Register, CCST in geriatric and general internal medicine or equivalent within 6 months of interview.Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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